AWESOME Video....

[Carlene 12]

The following is the hottest thing on the internet and on Fox News today.

Lizzie Palmer who put this YouTube program together is 15 years old. There have been over 3,000,000 hits as of this morning. In case you missed it, here it is.

[Alexandra 55]

Wow, Carlene. Thank you. That was absolutely heartbreaking.

God, how I want this war (and all wars, come to that) to END.

[travelgirl 3]

Wow. That was so powerful. Thank you for posting this.

[edieparks 2]

Damn I was proud and crying at the same time.

Yes thank you Carlene.

edie

[Victoriana 10]

God bless our Troups, There is a move to follow Winston Churchills request for a Nation wide prayer called Just the right time to pray. If you are on the east coast, Pray for one minute at 9:00 PM, 8PM for the Central, 7PM for Mountain and 6PM for the Pacific time zone.

Thats it. Just one minute every day and we will all be praying together for the safety of our Troups, and the safety of America, and for the timely and correct end to this war.

Just an FYI,and this was a totally awsome vidio.

[bkwalling 0]

that really makes u think

really moving

[*JASMINE* 1]

Yes, this really made me cry. Especially towards the end. It was so moving. I hate that they and their families have to go through this, when it is so unnecessary.

The one that broke me was the picture of the little boy touching the casket. No child should have to bare this type of pain.

[faithmd 14]

(Shaking my head)

This video is NOT about wishing the war would end or bringing up how unnecessary the war may be. There always has been and always will be war. This is a sad fact of life.

This video is about SUPPORTING our troops. She may be only 15, but she gets it, our troops feel forgotten, we are so busy protesting it and saying it's wrong and it shouldn't be happening. I may agree that in retrospect it was a bad choice to go in. But we did, nothing can change that. What we can change is how our troops feel about the treatment and support (or lack of) that they are getting.

Where are the pro-troop rallies? Where are the porches and railings draped with red, white and blue buntings and fans ? Where can I find streets lined with trees tied with yellow ribbons? Anyone else out there have an American flag flying proudly on the front of their house (or on a pole)? What happened to the "Support our Troops" magnets everyone used to have on their cars? I saw them at Walmart on CLEARANCE the other day!

Sad, shameful...

[susannah 2]

Hey, Thanks for posting this Carlene. There are also Australian troops in Iraq although not in the same numbers as the US. All those beautiful young lives lost, and for what? Civilians are suffering in Iraq also. I am sorry but I can't support this war on any level.

Susannah

[piercedqt78 658]

Hey, Thanks for posting this Carlene. There are also Australian troops in Iraq although not in the same numbers as the US. All those beautiful young lives lost, and for what? Civilians are suffering in Iraq also. I am sorry but I can't support this war on any level.

Susannah

You don't have to support the war to support the warior. ~Mandy

[marjon9 6]

(Shaking my head)

This video is NOT about wishing the war would end or bringing up how unnecessary the war may be. There always has been and always will be war. This is a sad fact of life.

This video is about SUPPORTING our troops. She may be only 15, but she gets it, our troops feel forgotten, we are so busy protesting it and saying it's wrong and it shouldn't be happening. I may agree that in retrospect it was a bad choice to go in. But we did, nothing can change that. What we can change is how our troops feel about the treatment and support (or lack of) that they are getting.

Where are the pro-troop rallies? Where are the porches and railings draped with red, white and blue buntings and fans ? Where can I find streets lined with trees tied with yellow ribbons? Anyone else out there have an American flag flying proudly on the front of their house (or on a pole)? What happened to the "Support our Troops" magnets everyone used to have on their cars? I saw them at Walmart on CLEARANCE the other day!

Sad, shameful...

Once again I feel compelled to state an opinion that is probably going to make some people angry, but I can't help it. I just can't read this post above without commenting.

If I were away from my family right now in Iraq, I too would feel forgotten. But it would not be because people have failed to put yellow ribbons on trees. Rather, I would feel totally abandoned by a country that is willing to let me die, and never again see my wife and child, for something so utterly meaningless, a war that was entered into on the basis of tricks and lies. I would feel angry and abondoned by leaders who's management of the war was breathtakingly incompetent from day one. I would know that many of my friends died because arrogant buffoons made enormous mistakes in the way the war was executed, and were too proud to admit it for years after their incompetence was obvious to everyone. I would know that this pride and arrogance cost tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, both U.S. and Iraqi. (Yes, Iraqi lives count too in my ledger sheet).

If I were away from my family now in Iraq, serving my third term of duty even though I never agreed to serve more than one, knowing that I was here because Bush lacks the courage to admit he made a mistake, I, too would feel abandoned and forgotten. After seeing my friend killed after he had already packed his bags to go home from his second tour of duty, but was called back at the last minute to serve a third, I would feel rage and betrayal on a scale that is impossible to put into words. I would be almost frantic with grief and on the edge of insanity over how utterly unnecessary and meaningless the whole thing was. I would carry anger and mental illness over it for the rest of my life, even if I was able to get home without dying or losing any body parts.

You see, the term "support the troops" has different meaning to different people. I feel quite sure that if I were over in Iraq, I would not be looking for yellow ribbons on trees. Rather, I would be looking for the people in my homeland to have the courage to do what it took to get me the hell out of there.

"We made a bad choice to go in. Nothing can change that. What we can change is how our troops feel about the treatment and support (or lack thereof) that they are getting."

I totally agree with all of that. But I strongly disagree that yellow ribbons are the way to "support" the troops. Support them by getting them the hell out of harms way. This war has already lasted longer than WWII. And all we have done is alienate most of the world, and set back hopes of resolving conflicts in the Middle East by at least a generation. Isn't it enough damage yet?

[susannah 2]

Hey, I will honor the troops in that they believed that they were doing a noble thing by trying to liberate the Iraqi people from a miserable existance under the now deceased dictator Hussein. That concept is to be commended no doubt.

I can never see a time where the political situation in Iraq will be stable. Historically Iraq is a tribal/factional culture with a different dominant religion. I think it is unrealistic to expect to just sweep in and establish a western style democracy and expect it to be all peaches and cream.

If Bush believes in this war so much let him lose his life. No mother should have to cry over the loss of her 19 or 20 year old child. They are babies just starting out in life.

Susannah

[marlynncreel 1]

Faithmd,

I totally agree with you. People are too caught up in is the war right/wrong, has it gone on long enough, or should we really have ever gotten in the middle of this, when they should be supporting our troops with more fervor. The fact remains that they're over there fighting for a cause that they believe in (whether we do or not) and they still deserve our love, devotion, and support! These ARE our family members, treat them as such!